By: Dwight Gilbert Jones Poort Design The release of Apple’s HomePod and a host of “visual assistants” has drawn comparisons with the apparent dominance of Amazon’s Echo/Alexa devices, and with Google’s Home Max speaker and related...

Amazon, Apple, Google and Samsung are developing networks centered on their own voice activated search engines, and these are integrated into their proprietary, walled-garden ecosystems. To date, none of them specify the use of a tablet or an independent web browser,...

The Amazon Echo might not be the best speaker money can buy but when you consider all the other features and benefits that come with owning an Echo, your music starts to sound a lot fuller, compared to your iPad. On top of offering several integrated music streaming...